Maryland law enforcement agencies received 398 reports of hate or bias last year, an increase of 35 percent from 2016 and a pace of more than one report a day. The state’s experience echoes a national increase in reported hate crimes, reversing a long, gradual decline.
White Maryland college student, 25, who fatally stabbed black Army recruit, 23, after his mind was poisoned by pro-Hitler Facebook page gets life in prison as he apologizes to victim s parents
Sean Christopher Urbanski has been sentenced to life in prison for the fatal stabbing of Richard Collins III at University of Maryland campus in May 2017
Urbanski was found to be a member of the Facebook group Alt-Reich: Nation, though his lawyers claimed crime was fueled by alcohol, not racism
At around 3:30am on May 20, 2017, Collins was waiting for an Uber with two friends on Maryland s College Park campus when he was stabbed in chest